This is far too senseless. Read and comment - I am outraged, but not surprised. It seems like the "911" problem is more widespread than I thought. I'd particularly like some folks in law enforcement to comment.
Brittany Zimmerman may still be alive - free to love, to grow, to learn, to be a mother, a friend, a sister, a daughter, a lover, a wife, if only someone got off their lazy ass. Now, who's job is it to fix this?
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It's horrible, and unfortunately, not the first time that has happened. A woman named Denise Lee was murdered earlier this year because the 911 Dispatcher "forgot".
Denise Lee, the young mother of two little boys, was seen screaming for help - tied up in the back of a Camaro - by not one but two witnesses. They (and Denise herself) called 911 four times. One witness even told a 911 operator what road the vehicle was driving on.
What happened to Denise? Investigators found her body two days later, naked and tossed into a shallow grave. She had been raped and killed, all because 911 dispatchers never bothered to forward the information to the police.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080316/NEWS/803160637/-1/newssitemap
The most horrible crap happens in Florida. I can't even watch the news anymore. These things shouldn't have happened. But they did, because of someone else's mistakes. The least they can do is make a change for the better because of it.
I saw a huge piece on "Today" regarding the terrible story you referenced above. I also remember the story of the 5 year old boy who called 911, knowing his mother was in distress and the operator admonished him for "playing". She later died. Something is intrinsically wrong with these minimum wage earning folks who cannot bother to get off their asses and notify the authorities when people are in trouble.
Also, I agree, what is up with Florida? The most terrible crimes occur there, or so it seems.
Thanks, E!
Liz,
Florida, as beautiful as it is and as much as I love it, is kind of a wasteland. They say all the nuts roll down to Florida, and they would be right. It is insane. Every time I venture to watch the evening news there's another new story of a sex crime being talked about rather nonchalantly. I can't stand it.
Having spent the first twenty years of my life in an idyllic-by-comparison town in Michigan where it was safe to ride your bike to the ice cream shop, I have had to completely change my mindset living here. You can never assume you are safe. You just can't. I have to always assume that the guy on the elevator with me or the guy walking behind me in the parking lot is going to do something to me. So far, I've been lucky. But jeez. When is enough enough, you know?
Love to you,
Erin
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